Highly revered Vietnamese restaurant Pho Zaika – I Love Pho opened a second location in the Old Capitol Town Center this morning. While the menu focuses on pho — a traditional Vietnamese broth served with rice noodles, herbs and your choice of meat, then garnished with lime, chili peppers, beansprouts and more herbs — the […]
Students for Bernie Concert The Field House — Saturday, Jan. 30 at 6 p.m. Update: Killer Mike has been removed from the list of performers for the Students for Bernie Concert due to a death in the family. Senator Bernie Sanders’ Iowa Headquarters announced late last night that members of the indie pop group Vampire […]
New Year’s Eve is just around the corner… and you’re still looking for plans? Well, look no further: Paris Je T’aime FilmScene — 4 p.m. $22 Bonne année! Join your fellow Francophiles for the third-annual Parisian NYE celebration at FilmScene. Countdown en français with champagne, pâtisserie and a livestream from the Eiffel Tower, followed by […]
Iris DeMent The Englert Theatre — Saturday, Nov. 21 at 8 p.m. Touring off the release of her most recent album, The Trackless Woods, Iowa City-based folk musician Iris DeMent will play The Englert Theatre this Saturday, Nov. 21. at 8 p.m. The Trackless Woods is a concept album that utilizes the English translations (by […]
Susan Werner CSPS — Saturday, Nov. 14 at 8 p.m. Longtime fans of Susan Werner rejoice! The Iowa-native folk musician stops through CSPS in Cedar Rapids this Saturday, Nov. 14 while on a 20th anniversary tour for her album, Last of the Good Straight Girls. This album — produced by long-time Lou Reed collaborator Fernando […]
Iowa City-based community organization Edible Outdoors (EO) will host a potluck dinner party at the Wesley Center of Public Space One this Saturday, Nov. 7 at 6 p.m. The ultimate goal of the potluck is to bring together hunted, fished, foraged or homegrown goods, though store-bought items will be accepted and shared just the same. […]
Folktronic trio yOya stop through Iowa City on their coast-to-coast tour to play a free show at Gabe’s this Sunday, Nov. 8. The group mixes traditional folk melodies with airy electronic beats, creating a sound that is at once both familiar and refreshing.
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Sidewalk Chalk Iowa City Yacht Club — October 30 at 9:30 p.m. Eclectic eight-piece soul ensemble Sidewalk Chalk returns to Iowa City this Friday on their nation-wide ‘Carry the Weight Tour.’ With heavy jazz and hip-hop influences and lead vocals divided between a male MC and a female vocalist, the group bounces from crooning to […]
Latino Americans: 500 Years of History: Immigration and US/Borderland Culture Kirkwood Community College, Iowa City Campus — October 29 at 6:30 p.m. As a part of an ongoing celebration of Latino American culture, Kirkwood Community College, Iowa City Campus will be showing an excerpt of the documentary Latino Americans: 500 Years of History, produced by […]
Hurts Donut Co. opened their doors last Thursday at 5 a.m. and haven’t closed them since. The 24/7 — or “25/8,” as they say at Hurts — donut shop at 1301 5th St. in Coralville (previously Mendoza Wine Bar), specializes in sugar-stacked cake-style donuts for those who are neither faint of heart nor weak of […]
Féminaal UI Theatre Building — Oct. 22-25 Playwright, MFA Directing candidate and feminist Nina Morrison took time to talk with Little Village about her upcoming show, Féminaal, which debuts this Thursday at 8 p.m. at the UI Theatre Building (Theatre B). Penned by Morrison and directed by Sam Collier, who recently graduated from the MFA […]
FARM Conference Various Locations — Oct. 22-25 Folk Alliance Region Midwest (FARM) will host their 24th annual conference at the Sheraton in downtown Iowa City from Oct. 22-25. The first FARM conference was held in the fall of 1991 after branching off of the national Folk Alliance to focus on a small, but dense, community […]